Bring up the topic of stateful and stateless applications and you can guarantee to get a house divided, almost equally on both sides. This leaves the average developer confused - is holding state good or bad? The answer is different : It is inevitable in circumstances and avoidable in certain others.
Is session(a means to maintain state) management a matter of choice if one has the discipline. I would say so. Some thoughts at:
http://regumindtrail.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/session-management-approach-choice-vs-discipline/
I would like to know the community views on this.

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